Fertilizer attachment for corn-planters.



A. HOLSEY.

FERTILIZER ATTACHMENT FOR CORN PLANTERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-26,1913.

Patented Mar. 13, 912.

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A. HOLSEY.

FERTILIZER ATTACHMENT FOR CORN PLANTERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.26.1913.

Patented Mar; 13, 1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR HOLSEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

FERTILIZER ATTACHMENT FOR CORN-PLANTERS.

Application filed September 26, 1913.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ARTHUR HOLSEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fertilizer Attachments for Corn-Planters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to fertilizer attachments for corn planters, and more particularly to a new form of driving mechanism therefor.

In many types of seed planters the frame adjusting lever is located forwardly of the carrying frame, and by reason of this a special form of driving mechanism must be provided for the fertilizer attachment in order to obtain the desired position on the planter for the fertilizer containers. A

planter of the type referred to is disclosed in the patent to Samuel K. Dennis, No. 1,001,736, August 29, 1911, seed planters; wherein it is found desirable to locate the frame adjusting lever near the front end of the carrying frame in order to make provision for a foot attachment. The usual driving mechanism for fe ilizer attachments consists of a straight s. aft arranged transversely of the planter frame, between the containers, and driven from the axle However, with the frame adjusting lever positioned forwardly of the carrying frame, a driving shaft so arranged would interfere with the operation of said lever.

It is the object of my invention to improve the construction and operation of a fertilizer attachment for seed planters and to provide a new form of driving mechanism therefor which will permit the frame adjusting lever of the planter to be strategically located near the forward end of the carrying frame and moved the necessary distance without interference. This object I accomplish by means of separate shafts for each of the containers driven from a countershaft located forwardly of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917'.

Serial No. 791,940.

ing drawings comprises carrying wheels 10,

an axle 11, a main or supporting frame 12 carried on the axle, a furrow opener frame 13 hinged to said supporting frame and carrying furrow openers 14, and a frame adjusting lever 15 pivoted to a transverse shaft 16'arranged forwardly of the carrying frame and secured therein. l

The fertilizer attachment comprises containers 17 arranged on opposite sides of the planter, atube 18 for each of the containers communicating with a valve 19 fixed to the adjacent furrow opener, and a driving mechanism for operating the feeding devices within the containers. The containers 17 occupy positions directly over the front of the carrying or covering Wheels 10, and each is provided with a separate feed operating shaft 20 extend'inginwardly a short distance and provided on its inner end with a sprocket wheel 21. Forwardly of the containers, and a short distance below, is a transversely arranged countershaft 22 carried in brackets 28 detachably secured. to the carrying frame of the'planter, said brackets also serving as hearing supp ts for the short shafts 20. On the countershaft are two sprocket wheels 24 arranged in 'line with the sprocket wheels on the feed oper-' ating shafts. On one side of the planter the alined sprocket wheels 21 and 24 are connected together by means of a chain 25, and on the opposite side of the planter a sprocket; chain 26, carried on a driving wheel 27 mounted on the axle of the planter, is employed for driving both the countershaft and the remaining feed operating.

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A clutch mechanism 28 (shown in Fig.

eiisninefi-s e Wheel I eouniershnft ar a? ting shafts, Wheels on feed operefiing shafts, means for cong the wheel on One of said feed opershafl swvith the alined wheel on the uneersha'l'b, and a driving member conto the axle of the planter and to the reineiiing alined Wheels on .the feed shaft and eeuntershaft.

l a seed planter, fertilizer conheiners carried on the itreine ef said planter, driving IEFGiLl'W fer Sfil containers comprising a sepaitinp' shaft for each of said eonand 00-- dly and below said feed operating shaft, sprocket wheels 3n said countershaifl; in line with the sprecket wheels on the feed operating shafts, a chain connecting the wheel on one of said feed operating shafts with the uiined wheel on the cquntei'shafft, and a driving ehein cenneetedio the axle oft-he planter and passing over the. remaining alined Wheels on the feed Operating shaft and eoiintei'shait't. l

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'tilizer containers curried 011 said frame, ring means for said containers campus a eiemtin shaft fer each of'said d epemting shafts, a drivingwheel eard on the side 'ef said planten means for meeting said driving Wheel in said ersheft, and a clutch operable he threw the driving Wheel and ent of en; ment with the axle. in (d seed pier a frame, an axis an, brackets iseesed on ppposit-e sides Tied shef v f of said containers rotatably mounted on id hreclrets, a. countersheft ei i'neled on said bracket-s andoperetlve s and said countershaft testimony whereof I ei ix my signature, e presence of We witnesses.

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